Blog Archive

Fact-checking the National Economic Dialogue Factual Guides on Tax and Equity

Cormac Staunton 17/07/2015

Cormac Staunton: The National Economic Dialogue concludes today. The Department of Finance have published guiding documents for each of the breakout …

Survey results show Ireland wants a "Social Recovery"

Cormac Staunton 14/07/2015

Cormac Staunton: New research carried out by ‘Behaviour and Attitudes’ on behalf of TASC shows that there is strong support for investing in …

European integration should not come at the cost of humiliating an entire people

David Begg 08/07/2015

David Begg: The Greek situation looks difficult. The economy is in danger of seizing up if the current standoff between the Greek Government and the …

How to Pay for a Living Wage?

Nat O'Connor 07/07/2015

Nat O'Connor: A single person working full-time needs to earn €11.50 per hour to afford a minimum decent standard of living. This is a rise in the …

The Greek Crisis: Lessons from Ireland

Jim Stewart 03/07/2015

Jim Stewart: The Greek crisis and tragedy is a seminal moment for the Eurozone and the EU. The Taoiseach has stated “For Greece there is a lesson …

Call to Europe on Greece: The European Progressive Movement must and will play a crucial role

01/07/2015

Prof. Stephany Griffith-Jones, Ernst Stetter and Vassilis Ntousas: There is still time to reach a fair and equitable deal with Greece, a deal that …

01/07/2015

What the Danish Election tells us

David Begg 29/06/2015

David Begg: The extraordinary success of the populist, anti - immigration, anti EU, Danish People’s Party (DPP) last week continues a trend in …

Solving the Greek crisis – by making inequality worse?

James Wickham 26/06/2015

James Wickham: It seems the Eurozone finance ministers - and behind them the IMF – are rejecting the last proposals from the Greek government. …